Interactive N Negative--The house that Jack built
At the beginning of the story, when the car is driving on a desolate highway, although there is no torrential rain and no disturbingly fast swinging wipers, the ghost will remind people of Hitchcock's "Psycho". Perhaps it was the chatter of the woman, or the repeated cuts and turns of the camera, which made people outside the play wonder with interest at what moment such inner anxiety and irritability would rush out of his hands. Negative begins with a desolate road and a restless inner performance. The director used the magical "rule of three" many times in the play to express this anxiety. Another example is the second murder, that is, when the first murder was planned and systematically started, he kept going back and forth to the old woman's house to check over and over again, causing the audience to fall into his anxiety and anxiety again and again until they met. The police, and when he dragged the old woman's body to escape the police pursuit, the director unexpectedly used a cheerful soundtrack, which made the audience's heart suddenly drop to a long breath of peace in the victory movement. , but suddenly began to worry about the blood trails he left, ah, the music stopped abruptly, and the heavy rain saved the audience's dangling hearts.
When Jack revisited the breathing of grass when he was a child, the director used the silence of Negative and the lively opposition to contrast and outline the psychology of the male protagonist in the processing of the sound here. He uses the almost silent silence to highlight the passionate and unrestrained breathing of the grass, which can be understood as the hero's own breathing or his own inner monologue - loneliness and paranoia. The same is true in the handling of light and shadow. There is a small detail in the film. The male protagonist likes to face the sun directly under the scorching sun, and then closes his eyes. The brightest sun aperture turns into a black hole when he closes his eyes. , as seen with the naked eye and felt with the mind, the ultimate light is the ultimate darkness, just as good and evil, beauty and ugliness. In the world of perverted and twisted murderers, the great evil he has done to others is the great beauty in his own twisted heart. This extreme Negative contrast also paved the way for his own paranoid and twisted psychology.
The film lays out the narrative in the form of sections, and at the same time uses a lot of creative jumps, selects representative murders, and slowly unfolds the mental journey through the interactive dialogue with Virgil. Complete the innovation of relatively boring or similar killing events. For example, the murders in the play are suddenly interspersed with the natural laws of the animal world, or the religious art of the Middle Ages. Inserting these seemingly unconnected natural and religious art concepts, in fact, the director wants to show the absurdity and paranoia of a distorted murderer from the psychological perspective of the most real male protagonist. Interaction: The first murder at the beginning was unintentional and imperfect, just like architecture, he laid the foundation for the house of "killing", and he had to build a perfect and artistic "human house", so he Constantly pushing to rebuild, and constantly improving his reasons and methods of killing, he wants to take artistic photos for each "human brick", and even at the risk of being discovered, paranoid builds a near-perfect "human room". When Virgil asked him, didn't you just want to build a house in the first place? Yes, "Human Room" immediately appeared on the screen.
Virgil's identity in this play is a dialogue, playing the object of interaction with the protagonist Jack in meditation. It was only when he appeared that the audience suddenly realized that Virgil was really the Virgil of "Divina Commedia", but Dante Originally written in the poem is a story of self-redemption, guided by Virgil to successfully reach heaven, but the protagonist Jack cannot be redeemed under Virgil's guidance. I learned about this controversial director a long time ago. Many people say that his three views are a bit distorted, but at least in this play he does not give people a distorted value, and the ending is too rambling to give the audience a more realistic Good and evil end.
Although the director or the play is controversial, and although the performance techniques, shooting techniques, lighting, and soundtrack are not the first, the whole play looks like an absurd thriller movie spliced in various styles, although in the process of watching the film I fell asleep twice in the middle, but I have to say that in the depressed film market, a drama that can be controversial is a success. (laugh)
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